Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound

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Pop music changed Phil Spector’s world forever - yet in 1958, an art form that had yet to reach double figures, had yet to acquire a status beyond that of mere fad. The genius of Spector was to make records that sounded as stop-what- you’re-doing breathtaking to the world as the very first pop music had always sounded to him. Ironically, he did so by invoking the classical records that he had heard as a youngster. “I knew about Toscanini,” he said, “I knew that Mozart was more important than his operas.” Explaining his Wall of Sound, he referred to it